NC Renegades

An overview of slavery from the New Testament:

Titus 2:9

Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,

Ephesians 6:5-9

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.

And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Colossians 3:22-24

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

I have been thinking about the issue of slavery for quite a period of time.  The Bible has hard lessons. The world interprets issues and lessons as it suits their own purposes.  Even though a man or woman must come to their own set of rules forming morality, slavery has become analogous with racism. I disregard this “argument” based on legal precedent: the court case recognizing slavery was Anthony Johnson. Mr. Johnson was captured in Angola and sent to Virginia. He became the first slaveholder of John Casor.

So let’s take racism out of the equation and look at slavery from the perspective of the Bible. The three excerpts above clearly show that the New Testament recognizes slavery in a Judeo-Christian culture. Does that mean that our culture should recognize slavery? At least on paper, the United States is still a republic based on the rule of law.

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Secondary subtitle for this post?  ”What in the almighty @#$%^&*! is wrong with you people??

First, let’s review the Barnhardt Axiom:

The fact that a given person is holding or even seeking high-level public office is, in and of itself, proof that said person is morally and/or psychologically UNFIT to hold public office.

Thank you Chris Christie for ONCE AGAIN proving the point.

I am DESPONDENT at the endless line of people engaging in massive moral relativism, trying to argue that Chris Christie maliciously causing traffic jams in order to punish his political enemies is somehow okay because he isn’t Obama or Mao Tse Tung or satan.  So, you know, by comparison, causing massive traffic delays is totally small ball, so whatevs.

Will you people just stop for two seconds and THINK about what you’re saying?  This man freely chose to maliciously disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people – people  whom he is charged with serving, in order to win some urinating contest with another politician.  Chris Christie, just like all politicians today (see the Barnhardt Axiom), views other human beings as objects that exist only to serve him.  Chris Christie doesn’t give a flying flip about his constituents.  They are a mildly annoying teeming mass of vermin who can be used and abused in order to consolidate, increase and entrench his own personal power and wealth.  He doesn’t care about the man who was trying to get home to his sick wife.  He doesn’t care about the woman trying to get home so she can make it to her kids’ school program.  He doesn’t care about the guy who just worked a 14 hour shift, is totally exhausted, and just wants to go home and go to bed, because he has to wake up tomorrow morning and do it all over again.  Chris Christie doesn’t care about wasting other people’s time.  He doesn’t worry about how his maliciously engineered traffic jam COULD make the two-minute difference between a heart attack victim or head injury victim surviving or dying.

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It appears that people are forwarding the daily posts from NCRenegade to their liberal friends. Needless to say, they are not too happy.

To clarify, NCRenegade uses a plugin from Feedburner to send emails to individuals based on when an article is published or on a daily basis. People have to sign up and validate their subscription to NCRenegade in order to receive emails. I do not have the ability to unsubscribe you and I have no way to stop people from forwarding their emails from Feedburner.

For those who are receiving emails forwarded from sentient Americans and are upset by their content, bless your heart.

David DeGerolamo

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t9MpNTSbYg

From YouTube:

Ed Braz, professional wildlife photographer, captured video of a building under construction collapsing in high winds when a severe storm passed through the Raleigh, NC area Saturday afternoon, January 11, 2014.

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We heard a tornado near our house. Power was out for 4 hours. Internet (and NCRenegade was out for 27 hours).

David DeGerolamo

Source

by Sam Culper

This post builds off a previous one about the Source Recruitment Cycle.  RASCLS is another mnemonic device that applies to how we ‘handle’ our sources once we’ve recruited them.

Once we’ve recruited our first source – the guy who’s agreed to give us information in return for whatever combination of MICE/RC factors we’ve identified – we have to ensure that a) he stays safe; b) we stay safe while we’re meeting with him; c) we develop him to make him a more efficient collector for us; and d) that we maintain rapport and control with him.

One of the best ways we can maintain rapport and control with our source – because an unpredictable or unresponsive source, or the proverbial loose cannon, becomes a liability for us as source handlers – is to remember and apply RASCLS, or Reciprocation, Authority, Scarcity, Commitment and Consistency, Liking, and Social Proof.  This list of factors was developed by Dr. Robert Cialdini, psychologist and author of the book Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion.

Reciprocation.

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